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'Maxed Out': Serious Matters Of Life and Debt |
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Written by Ann Hornaday
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Friday, 09 March 2007 |
 "Maxed Out," a film about the consumer debt crisis, might as well be ripped from the headlines, in light of last week's stock market plunge (blamed in part on too many mortgages sold to high-risk home buyers). But here's the man-bites-dog part: This factoid-filled, talking-heads documentary -- by a business school graduate -- turns out to be amusing. And enlightening. And positively riveting.
As unlikely as it sounds that someone has made a taut and entertaining film about credit, that's precisely what James D. Scurlock has done with "Maxed Out," in which he delivers a punchy, well-reasoned account of America's huge problem with debt, how we got there and what the stakes are. (P.S., Scurlock is not the guy who took on the fast-food industry in "Super Size Me." That was Morgan Spurlock.)
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